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I was the guy behind eggdrop, paramiko, the sidekick ssh client, kestrel, and many smaller projects. I've been in 3 unsuccessful […]
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@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gymy remaining ubuntu machine has become really crashy since last week's update but i'm hearing it may just be that linux 7.0 in general is very crashy
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy@mjdxp i also like ben eater, usagi electric, and james sharman
@artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gyIf you saw a viral cartoon of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry at the pearly gates, signed by the New Yorker cartoonist Brendan Loper and thought "hmm, a bit banal for him?" then congratulate yourself. It was actually generated by ChatGPT by a fan who asked the AI chatbot to make “a New Yorker-style […]
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy@nelson oh i wonder if i'm screwed by having an iphone, where they notoriously try to lock down sms... would be a nice bonus feature in something like bitwarden :)
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy@jbcrawford i saw one of these in rural TN, *with* an AC, but definitely never occupied... my best guess was there's equipment inside with temp constraints
... or else the maintenance crew has a great union
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gythe use of "1.5 factor auth" (websites sending a code to my phone because they don't trust my password) has snowballed past the point of parody... my bank now logs out if i don't look at the tab for 30s. when i re-login, it gets suspicious about "frequent logins" and sends me another code! i […]
@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyReposted by @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gyGood lord … seriously into mindfuck territory: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/online-in-2026/
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy@evan i think the fep is missing a "motivation" section. (for example, if the motivation is to track causality chains, something like inReplyTo -- or latestPublicPostId -- might be better, where you can thread the causality by post id)
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gytried to use "apple pay" on my phone to pay for something on a website, and it flipped out at my address in two different places... took me a while to figure out why it was mad... turns out the iphone is not 8-bit clean! i had to misspell my city's name (removing an accent) to make it happy […]
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gyi guess sam altman should "just accept" having his house firebombed on the regular
@hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gyReposted by @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gyJust put my homemade cosmic microwave background rug over the baby’s crib
@kvetch.gayReposted by @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gyI do think the Swedes could come up with a different word for "bassoon" if they wanted to
@davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gyReposted by @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gythis continues to be the best cover of an animal collective song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN40VlBwqRU
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gyi'm still reeling from the firefox ux debacle. it so obviously should have been a new theme. make it the new default theme and that would be a good way to let people discover the theme system. instead it seems to be some low-level hack that messes up EVERY theme! it bypasses the theme system […]
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gyI don't know what everyone's complaining about
@tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gyReposted by @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy"Which is to say: not choosing or trying to choose a middle ground is basically full support of generated code, but slower. It is effectively choosing position 1 (pro-AI) without being explicit about it. It is either naive or hypocritical."
https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html
(by @ploum )
@lordravenscraft.bsky.socialReposted by @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gymy basic bar for journalists anthropomorphizing AI is this: if Kermit the Frog ran over and killed a guy with his car, would you report Kermit was driving and maybe we shouldn't give licenses to frogs? Or would you drop the kayfabe and say some puppeteers committed vehicular manslaughter?
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gythere are a lot of different ways you could spell "apt list-versions", but "apt-cache madison" was not in my first 1000 guesses.
this toot sponsored by: vscode pulled in a buggy version of electron that sets all ux elements to be circles, and the only fix […]
@robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gyi continue to not understand why "aura farming" posters (people who want to be popular, like celebs or journalists) post on private networks like bluesky/threads but then make it very difficult to *see the post* like, if you post something to threads, but i can't read it unless i open a private […]
